Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35325, Jonah Fobes, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Forbes, Jonah
NUMBER
S. 35325
CONTENTS

10.520
Maine
Jonah Fobes of Buckfield in the District state of Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Tupper of the Massachusetts line, for the term of One year
Inscribed on the Roll of District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 of May 1819 and sent to Albion H. Parrit Esq. Portland — Maine
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 10 18 3/4 85.83 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819 6 mo 48.
$133.83
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. } Continued on the roll under the law 1 May 1820. Notification sent to Thos Clark Esq 11 July 1820. Paris Maine

We the Subscribers, Selectmen of the town of Buckfield in the County of Oxford and Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby certify that Mr. Jonah Fobes of said town is, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, in need of assistance from his country for support
Sam l F. Brown
Enoch Hall
Samuel Swallow
Buckfield } April 13. 1845 }

Jonah Hobbs
Private Col Tappan's Regiment
Massachusetts Line
1776 - 9 months
Admitted
Jonah Hobbs.

Apr 13. Sine
I Jonah Tobes of Buckfield in the County of Oxford Commonwealth of Massachusetts Yeoman, on oath declare that I served as a Soldier in the army in the war of the Revolution on the Continental estab- lishment for the term of twenty months and upwards that I enlisted into said services at Easton, in the County of Bristol in said Commonwealth in the latter part of April in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five into a company commanded by Captain Abel Mitchell and did duty in said Company untill January March in the year seventeen hundred & seventy six at Roxbury near Boston and thereabouts my said company belonging to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Timothy Walker That after having done duty in the Militia till March 17 76. I again enlisted into said service into Company commanded by Captain Ephraim Burr belonging to the Regiment commanded by Col n Benjamin Tupper, at Roxbury for the term of one year and immediately marched to New York where I was stationed for some months & untill the enemy took possession of that place - when I marched in said company to various places and finally left the army December the 25 th day 1776 by a pass given by my commanding officer, my time not being fully expired.

I further declare that I am a resident Citizen of the United States of America - that I am not borne on any pension list of said United States and that in consequence of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support -
Jones Hobbs

I Elisha Bisbee of Sumner in the County of Oxford & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Gentleman testify and say that I was a soldier in the Army during the Revolutionary war, that while in said service I belonged to the Regiment Commanded by Col. John Bailey and was a part of the time stationed in the City of New York where I became personally knowing to the fact that Jonah Fobes now resident in Buckfield in said County of Oxford, was also a soldier in the same Regiment and I think, belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Lathrop - I knew him to be in said service from May in the year one hundred and seventy six, to about the first of September following when I and the said Fobes left New York with the American army when they evacuated that City, and although I did not know from my personally being said Fobes that he was in said service after said evacuation of New York, yet from various other sources of information I am well convinced that the said Fobes did serve during the whole term of one year or more in said service -
Elisha Bisbee
Oxford Jp.
At the sixteenth day of April in the year

of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eighteen the aforesaid Deponent was examined and cautioned and sworn agreeable to law to the Deposition aforesaid by him signed taken at the request Jonah Dobes and to be used in an application made by the said Dobes to the District Court of the United States now in special session at Paris within for the District of Maine for a certificate of his having served in the war of the Revolution on the Continental establishment for the purpose of receiving a pension from said United States agreeable to the provisions of an Act of Congress passed March 18. 1818 entitled An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War —
Taken by special appointment of the Hon. Nelson H. Perin Esq. Judge of the United States in for said District by me
Samuel D. Brown Justice of the Peace —

3 United States of America } District of Maine } ss
To Samuel H. Brown of Bucksport in said District and David Morley of Boston in the District of Massachusetts, Greeting.
Whereas at a Special District Court of said United States for Maine District held at Paris within said District on the fifteenth day of April A.D. 1818 -
Jeremiah Hobbs of Bucksport in said District presented himself and claimed a certificate of his having served in the war of the Revolution in the continental establishment against the common enemy for the purpose of receiving a pension from said United States, agreeable to the pro- visions of an act of Congress passed March 18. 1818 entitled "an act to provide for cer- tain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war; and whereas in the course of the examination he had

it appear that the testimony of Elisha Biber and summon persons in & near said Boston  Hy Ezekiel Hiltson be the of Summons in said District are material & necessary in support of said application:—
Therefore to the end that the testimony of said may be had and by virtue of the power vested in this Court by the laws of the United States, you the said Samuel F. Brown an hereby appointed and authorized, at the proper expenses of the applicant, to take the Depositions of the said Elisha Biber & Hy Ezekiel Hiltson touching the application of said and the same when taken, together with their Warrants, to certify and return to the judges of said Court without unnecessary delay — Given under my hand and seal at Paris within said District this thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred

Silas Philips of Lawful age do testify and declare that I was In the revolutionary army and served eight months commencing at Roxbury April 1775 - M c Jorah Jobes also commenced and served with me the whole period we enlisted In Capt. Francis Lycombs company and Col. Walker Regt and were dismissed In Dec r 1775
We then re-enlisted In Capt. Ephraim Burns Company and Col. Wards Regt and served the year ending at Kings Ferry In New York State Dec r 1776 where we were discharged all of which time we belonged to the Massachusetts line
Easton Sept r 28 th 1818
Silas Philips
Bristol ss September 28. 1818 Then the above named Silas Philips made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is Just and true in all its parts. before me David Manley Justice Peace
I Asa Philips of Lawful age do testify and declare that I served with Jorah Jobes In the Continental army one year commencing at Roxbury Dec r 1775 and ending at Kings Ferry In New York State Dec r 1776 - I afterwards we were attached to Col. Wards Regt In Capt. Ephraim Burns Company during the above period
I afterwards served three months with said Jobes at Rhoad Island In Capt. Matthew Mawdsley company and Col. Mitchells Regt In the year 1781
Asa Phillips
Easton Sept r 28 th 1818
Bristol ss September 28 th 1818 Then the above named Asa Philips made oath that the above Certificate by him subscribed is Just and true in all its parts. before me David Manley Justice Peace

Bristol 8 September 28 th 1819 The within Depositions were taken this day before me to be used in the Hon. Albion Kidniss Lodge of U.S. Courts in an application by the said Jonah Tobes for a Pension from the United States for services rendered in the Continental army -
I caused the same to be signed by me Justice of the Peace

and eighteen
Albion H. Parris
Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the Thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came Jonah Frobes the applicant named in the papers hereunto annexed, and after being duly cautioned and examined, made oath that the several statements by him made in the annexed application, signed in my presence, are wholly true.
And the said applicant further offered in evidence a regular discharge, given him in the revolutionary war; and the depositions of Elisha Bisbee, Silas Phillips, and Asa Phillips taken before Samuel F. Brown, an at David Manley, notaries public duly authorized; also the certificate of Samuel F. Brown & others, municipal officers of the corporation to which said applicant belongs, relative to his circumstances in life; all which are hereunto annexed.
And it appearing to me in the examination here had, that the several persons above named are credible witnesses, I do hereby admit the annexed declarations as evidence, and certify the same as being satisfactory proof to me that the said Jonah Frobes the applicant, served as a private soldier in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and upwards in continuation on the continental establishment. And I do further certify, that from the declaration of the applicant made before me, under oath as aforesaid, it does appear that in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support; all which I do hereby certify and transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War, agreeably to the provisions of an Act of Congress, passed March 18, 1818; entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war."
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused my Official Seal to be affixed the day and year first mentioned.
Adison L. Parsons
Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine.

Jonah Hobbes -
N o 10520 -
continued
11 May 1819
C

STATE OF MAINE.
Oxford ss. A labicuit Court of Common Pleas begun and holden at Paris within and for the county of Oxford on the second Tuesday of June A.D. 1820 and by adjournment from on the before the Honorable Benjamin Green & Judah Dana A.D. 1820 Judges of said Court.
On this 14th day of June in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said county of Oxford - Jonah Hobes aged seventy nine - years, resident in Buckfield in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private - in the company commanded by Capt. Ephraim Burr in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Benjamin Tupper in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the 12th day of April A.D. 1818 - , and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 10520 was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particu- larly described below, also subscribed by me.
Jonah his Hobes - mark
Sworn to and declared, on the 15th day of June A.D. 1820.
Benjamin Green Judah Dana
BEFORE
Judges of said Court.
SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz: -
one cow - one heifer - one axe - one hoe - one wheel - earthen crockery & tin ware to the value of one dollar - one churn - one pail - one pot - one tea kettle - one shovel & tongs -
Jonah his Hobes - mark

SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Jonah Hobes who by occupation am a farmer which I am un able to pursue by reason of  infirmary —
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Bethiah wife of said Jonah 79 feeble  
his Jonah Hobes mark
I Thomas Clark Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said county of Oxford do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is twenty six dollars and  $26.00
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 24th day of June A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty
Thomas Clark Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said county of Oxford

FORES, JONAH (MASS.) S-35325

Jonah Sobey and Isaac King have: Leave of absence for seven days to recover their health and at that time are discharged from the continental Army All friends to the State are desired to treat them as good soldiers and friends to their country Ephraim Wood sent by order of Coll. Tappan Kings Ferry December 23 1776

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Jonah Hobbs Dr Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
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[Arrangement of 1870.]